Sound Quotes · Page 102

I know I sound overly optimistic, but you know me, I've always been an optimistic guy.

— Ron Rivera

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.

— Meryl Streep

“I can't wait to get my memory back. It sounds like I am a really cool person”

— John C. Wright

If you can't give me a good ear then don't convince me you're a sound listener!

— DEEPA RANA

My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

— Yoko Ono

The way that we look does not have anything to do with the way that we sound, or the way that we…

— Hank Green

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world

— Chris Kattan

Every few years, I go back into all the songs and I update them so that it never sounds like an oldies…

— Barry Manilow

My favorite kind of song is the most beautiful song that you love so much and it's so good it makes you…

— Kurt Vile

The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow…

— Harold Klemp

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten…

— Chris Messina

I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom.…

— Woody Allen

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a…

— Tommy Shaw

One of the nicest things is that I still get, very ambiguously, people saying to me, "Oh, I'm just reading your book."…

— David Toop

You can't have 12 records on your album and none of them sound alike. You gotta kind of have something to make…

— Rakim

I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in…

— Washington Irving

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was…

— Dee Snider

The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a…

— Pauline Oliveros

Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness…

— William O. Douglas

I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from…

— Shaun Tan

The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for…

— Hippocrates

Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

— Jennifer Donnelly

I think there are records that will sell, and I think what makes a record sell is a continuity of sound.

— Dr. Luke

You’re not making my mistakes, Bella. You sound like you’re scared silly, and I’m guessing it’s because you’re afraid of me.

— Stephenie Meyer

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

— Tom Petty

Your music sounds better on the radio, for some reason. It's an amazing feeling. I hope it never goes away.

— Brandon Boyd

I think Tesla doesn't sound like it has a very collaborative culture.

— Anand Mahindra

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Whenever something good comes up that sounds like I could be part of the project, my manager and my agents send me…

— Tyler Posey

As horrible as this sounds, I am a little vulnerable about appearances.

— Jacqui Holland

Most of the bands that come out of L.A. now have singers that all sound like Daffy Duck.

— Gary Moore

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

— T Bone Burnett

When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.

— Susanna Kaysen

As cheesy and melodramatic as it might sound, love excites me more than anything... in all its forms.

— Haley Strode

Of course, if you're gonna make a rap song, you're gonna want to sound like Melle Mel.

— Ad-Rock

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

— Marilyn Hacker